A reference analysis of doctoral theses in the field Education: An interesting issue for librarians as well as scientometricians or bibliometricians

Abstract

The 3195 citations analyzed were cited in 35 doctoral theses of Education awarded to Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra from the period 1995-2008. The bibliographic formwise distribution of citations accounted for 1380 (43.20%) periodical publications followed by Books 672 (21.04%). More than two third contributions (56.23%) were produced under single authorship. Largest of total cited periodicals were of Indian origin (31.01%) followed by the periodicals published from U.S.A. (17.83%) and U.K. (12.40%).